TSA Agents Get Bonuses While Americans Still Pay for War
While celebrating modest bonuses for essential workers during a manufactured crisis, the media conveniently ignores where the true bonanza lies. In 2023 alone, the U.S. sent over $10 billion in military aid to Israel, with calls for more, like the recent House Bill 8034, which proposed an additional $14.3 billion. This massive outflow of US taxpayer dollars, often greenlit by politicians who
receive hefty donations from lobbies like AIPAC (which spent $3.1 million in lobbying in 2023, per OpenSecrets.org), makes a $10,000 bonus look like pocket lint. The priorities are clear: security theater at home, unchecked military spending abroad, and crumbs for the workers. One might wonder why the American public is expected to cheer a one-off bonus for workers while their tax dollars are
continually diverted to endless conflicts and foreign military budgets, without so much as a peep from the very same outlets. How many bonuses could those billions fund? But that, apparently, is not a story worth telling.